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(tentlkmrn  :  I  beg  leave,  respectfully,  to  call  your  attention  to  the  provision  of  the  Appropriation  Art. 
passed  by  tbe  Legislature  on  the  17th  of  December,  1863,  requiring  the  Boards  tor  tin-  relief  of  tin1  families  <>i 
Soldiers  to  "  make,  respectively,  an  annual  report,  on  the  1st  day  of  November  in  each  year,  to  the  State  A ud- 
itor,  to  In",  by  that  officer,  consolidated  and  reported  to  the  next  su<  -latum." 

The  annual  report  here  required  i^  understood  to  lie  in  the  place  and  stead  of  tl hitherto  made 

directly  to  tin-  Legislal  a 

To  enable  the  undersigned  to  condense  from  these  reports  .-ill  important  information, and  to  embody  the 
same  in  n  general  report  i"  be  submitted  t"  tin'  Legislature  on  tin-  first  day  ol  1 1  * . -  session,  the  following  sug- 
gestions aii-  respect fn I h  snhmitted  : 

1.  Appropriation  by  Legislature. —  It  is  desirable  that  the  n-  of  tin-  respective  Boards  .'ml 
on  the  80th  1I.-1  \  •'!  September, and  that  their  annual  accounts  hi1  made  n|>  to  that  Hay      These  accounts  should 

exhibit    tin'  sums  oi   mom  >m  tin1  State  Treasun  I  te  date  of  t.lic  last   an il  reporl   10  the 

Legislature;  tin1  manner  in  which  the  said   sums  have  been  disbursed;  the  agji  lumber  of  families  re- 
nd therebj  ;  and  tin-  numher  of  adults  ami  children  em  bra I  in  tin'  families  so  relieved. 

2.  Tax  in  Kind.     It    would    furnish    the   materials    tor   .1    1,  ,u    and    valuable    tabular 

<t ate nt  ol  the  results  ol  thi-  lax,  it   the  Boards  will  submit  in  their  annual  1  ted  abstract  of 

the  qusntitj  of  rice,  corn,  ami  wheat,  ami  of  cotton  yarns,  cloth,  leather,  salt,  and  other  manufacl  area  receive' I 
h\  them  respect  ively,  nn<ier  the  A  <-t  of  the  19th  of  December,  I W53,  imposing  a  tax  in  kind  for  "the  support  of 
the  families  of  soldiers."  \ml  the  value  of  this  information  would  he  greatly  enhanced  if  a  statement  can  he 
furnished  by  each  Board  "I  the  quantity  ol  grain  and  manufactures  collected  in  their  respective  Districts  or 
Parishes;  the  quantity  received  from,  or  sent  to.  other  Districts  or  Parishes  tinder  tin-  provisions  of  tin 

\   1  :  the  mode  adopted  tin'  the  distribution  of  the  articles  so  collected  ami  received;  the  number  of  families 

thereby  relieved  ;  ami  tin-  amount  of  funds  derived  from  tic  sal commutation  ol  the  tax  in  kind  and  paid 

into  the  State  Treasury  tor  apportionment. 

3.  Supplies  from  Commissary  It  is  also  very  desirable  that  a  «tatement  be  submitted  by 
each  Board  "f  the  cotton  cloth,  cotton  and  wool  tarda,  rue.  corn,  salt,  and  other  supplies  purchased  during 
the  year  from  the  Commissary  General  of  the  State ;  tin  'te  sum  paid  to  him  for  each  description  of 
the  sai' I  supplies ;  the  mode  adopted  for  the  distribution  of  the  sa  her  by  sale  or  in  kind ;  the  cin 
stances  and  number  ol  the  families  to  whom  the  said  distribution  was  made;  the  prices  charged  for  tht 
supplies  when  sold;  tin-  aggregate  amount  received  from  the  sal  ription  of  supplies,  and  the 
appropriation  ami  disbursement  of  the  amounts  so  received. 

It  is  not  intended  hj  the  foregoing  suggestions  to  interfert  in  any  manner  with  the  form  or  snbjectf1 
matter  of  the  reports  ot  the  Boards  addressed  by  this  Circular  These  are  loft,  as  heretofore,  to  the  discretion 
■  I  each  Board,  man  a  nf  whom  have  exhibited  in  previous  returns  a  commendable  anxiety  to  place  permanently 
ii]i"tt  record  a  detailed  account  of  all  their  transactions  in  the  matter  of  the  responsible  trust  committed  to 
them  by  the  Legislature  The  main  purpose  ot  this  communication  is  t..  secure,  as  far  as  practicable,  unifor- 
mity in  respcel  to  the  character  "1  the  in  form, -it  ion  to  be  embraced  in  the  reports  ol  the  various  Boards,  and  to 
insure,  it  possible,  the  receipt  at  this  office  ol  the  said  reports  on  or  he  fore  the  day  fixed  by  the  Legislator 
their  being  sent  in.  All  suggestions  and  recommendations  from  the  smM  Boards,  having  for  their  object  the 
advantage  of  the  beneficiaries  under  their  charge,  or  contemplatin  11  carrying  out  of  the  pur- 
poses ol   the  Legislature  in   their   behalf,  will   be  submitted    by  the  nndersig !    In   that   body  on  the  earliest 

practicable  daj  of  the  approaching  si  se 

With  greal  respeel    I  am,  gentlemen. 

Your  obedient  servant, 

.1  \MK.-  TII'I'Ki;. 

An.1  So.  (jH 


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